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Programs can be very efficient disaster compression algorithms.

You have to figure out how sensitive your are. If you feel really crappy after a small exposure then plan accordingly. If you can tolerate some exposure then your life will be easier. Unfortunately, it changes over time so you'll have to be on the lookout.

It's easiest if you make your own food and switch to a vegetable and meat diet. Trusting what anyone says about food content can lead to problems.

And don't apologize for your dietary requirements. It's your life, not theirs. They don't have to approve or even understand.

But this all take a lot of willpower. It's not easy.

Not all who wander are lost is a reference to Aragorn who as a Ranger wandered all over in his duties. The poem is about Aragorn ushering in the 4th age. So I'm not sure there are deep lessons here.

That's so beautiful!

Me too. Still a superior development experience in many ways.

Depending on where you move to in CA you can keep your previous tax basis. That's prop 60/90 I think.

I cover that at the end. I was just having fun...

Oh, and before you complain about the title, most of my titles are boring by design. I finally got a chance to do something different, so I took it

In The Issues We Face at the Nano Scale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEjx48z8Lzs) the Gray Goo threat is debunked. Nanomachines need a really controlled environment to live. They need the right PH, salt, and temperature. Change any parameters and nanomachines won't work. World saved.

It's odd how the free market is never itself subject to selection by a free market. It always must be imposed because people seem to like constraints.

Isn’t tax filing complicated because of the tax system? If your income is low enough it is free. Below $66000. You just have to say no to add ons. State filing can be free if you shop around.

Free File: Do Your Federal Taxes for Free https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...

Quite the apposite. Love Amazon and a stock holder. That doesn't mean I'm blind to some of their faults and would like improvements.

> What do you mean by Kindle exclusivity?

I'm talking from authors perspective. To be part of KU you must be exclusive which is anti-competitive.

> Citation needed.

Again, an author thing. Have you noticed that "also bought" have gone away? (https://davidgaughran.com/2018/11/03/amazon-also-boughts-apo...) Authors are forced to advertise using AMS to get their content in front of users when previously discovery was more organic.

Not very VIP.

Do you really consider kindle exclusivity a VIP experience? Do you really consider replacing organic discovery with pay to play advertising a VIP experience?

Cure for what exactly? If you're a T2 you're still a T2. Fasting doesn't mean a T2 can eat a chunk of cake and have a normal glucose response. But being a controlled T2 is infinitely better than what most T2s experience. It's just that the "cure" talk is misleading.

I use the same idea when stacking firewood.

I think it's the hedonic treadmill. We always adapt so even peaks become the new normal, this life is always just about normal.

The big problem is a democracy relies upon the political process to counter partisanship, which sounds good in theory—people working out their problems together; in practice the political process algorithm has not proved a sufficient immune system to sustain a democracy against the constant stream of forces subverting it for their own ends.

In the US we’ve tried giving more power to the legal system in the hopes it might be enough to save democracy, but that strategy is essentially conservative. It’s not adaptive. A legalistic system can not rise to meet the problems of the present or the challenges of the future.

A democracy, unless exceptional people lead it, can’t seem to overcome its own greed and self-interest. What we need are more exceptional people.

Exploiting Google's SEO was the plan from the very beginning. They just did an excellent job of it.

That can't possibly work. How do you handle tokens, 2FA, etc?

Does this mean we can't have our own login system anymore? If so how will you authenticate with APIs? You need to login to get tokens.

Remember Big Cotton during the US Civil War? The south thought england would take the south's side because so much of their economy was based on southern cotton.

It didn't work. The south didn't appreciate england's disgust with slavery. England developed other suppliers and found replacements.

Nobody is ever quite as special as they think they are. This goes for all sides.

Identity is the most important characteristic of OO. Objects have identity.

Sure, if all you have is a W-2 and no kids.

The rates referenced are only for ordinary income. But it's not just the rates... it's the base. Most people do not understand that different types of income are taxed very differently.

In addition to ordinary tax rates, there are 3 different capital gains rate (0%, 15%, 20%), Then there's the 25% depreciation recapture rate and the 28% collectibles rate. Then 3.8% Net Investment Income tax will be added to that, but only the amount over the threshold not the full amount of your investment income. Don't forget the capital loss limitation. How do you apply the rate if you can't deduct more than $3K in a year regardless of how much you've lost?

Which brings me to passive income & how only passive losses can offset it.... and how you can't deduct the any passive losses if your AGI is > $150K.... unless you're a real estate professional. Oh but if you have passive rental income, that could be subject to the 3.8% tax on top of your ordinary tax.

Even if you just have a W-2, you may also have to pay 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax on certain wages...how much depends if you're married or not.

And even in you only have ordinary income, what you're really looking for an effective tax rate. But to determine that, you have to take into account the tax credits which you may or may not get depending on your AGI, & a host of other factors. And then how much of your deductions will actually count towards reducing your taxable income. High state tax folk are figuring that out now.

Then there's the lovely 20% Qualified Business Income...which you might get, or you might not. depending on what type of business you have and if you pay wages. But if you have REIT or PTP dividends (read investors), you get that deduction no matter what...which means that your actual rate on that income is really 80% of the nominal rate referenced.

Hopefully you're getting my point: It's a myth that you can take "income" & multiply it by the marginal rate in the table to calculate your actual tax liability.

It's so much more complicated than that. ... Oh, and then tax reform sunsets in 2026 & we're right back to the 2017 tax law more or less.

The current w-4 is almost impossible. Taxes are way more complicated than last year. There are more rates. More different kinds of income. It's almost a tax return.

How can you differentiate between a camouflaged back door and a mistake? It's clear you would want plausible deniability, so you would make it look like a mistake. And if you have mistake after mistake when do they stop being mistakes?

Non-story. IRS has never offered Free File. Their current program is in conjunction with for-profit providers

The title is wonderful. Poetic. It's hard not to imagine a mind drifting into reverie on reading it.

Don't forget a big reason CA has a vibrant tech culture is because of it does not allow Non Competes. You pay something but you get something in return.

Other people's suffering OK. For any of our suffering we immediately make an app to relieve it.

Kaiser could do so much with the data they have and could have. I wish they were more forward looking.

You have to wonder how agreed upon these targets really were. Perhaps milestones are being missed because they were driven top down and were never realistic to begin with? Developers with ownership are more likely to work to complete their goals. If they aren't then that's a symptom of problems, not the cause.